avoiding line break problems?! How do I

[Anon]

I think in need to clear up some confusion of a previous question.

I want to avoid the paragraph problem when a user enters data in a textarea box. If the user doesn't know html but hits the enter key 2 times to try and make a paragraph effect, i want to maintain that in the DB output back to the screen rather than running everything together.

thanks

[amcgrath]

are you talking about the nl2br() function?

[Anon]

kinda, but i don't want the user to have to but in any code at all. i want them to type in there paragraphs, hit submit, and when i output it to the screen, i want it to look just as they typed it in paragraphs.

[[deleted]]

That's what the nl2br() function does, it translates all newlines to BR tags. Try it.

[Anon]

How exactly do you do it?

[Anon]

You have a variable that is your text right?

$text

Then you just use the function to output the text.

echo nl2br($text)

or you could set the function to a new variable like

$textspace = nl2br($text);

echo $textspace;